Films you've seen recently and would unreservedly recommend:
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Amplesamples
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Just got a dvd of a French horror film called Frontiers. It was absolutely rubbish - rip off of Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Hostel (which was also crap, but the idea was pretty cool - murder as the ultimate end of capitalism).
Has anyone seen any decent horror films recently? I'm not bothered about seeing any J-Horror films because all of them always have reviews saying "This is the scariest thing ever!" from apparently reputable sources, then it's always a bloody 12 year old girl with greasy hair coming out of the telly, or the phone or the oven or something.
But anyway, Frontiers was awful - and the main character did this ridiculous tottering walk throughout the last 30 mins or so of the movie to show that she was in shock, but as someone on the IMBD board noted, she moved like a 'blind blues musician'.
Anyone else seen this film? Or even better, a proper decent horror film?
Has anyone seen any decent horror films recently? I'm not bothered about seeing any J-Horror films because all of them always have reviews saying "This is the scariest thing ever!" from apparently reputable sources, then it's always a bloody 12 year old girl with greasy hair coming out of the telly, or the phone or the oven or something.
But anyway, Frontiers was awful - and the main character did this ridiculous tottering walk throughout the last 30 mins or so of the movie to show that she was in shock, but as someone on the IMBD board noted, she moved like a 'blind blues musician'.
Anyone else seen this film? Or even better, a proper decent horror film?
nochexxx
harco pronting
The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters
must see documentary about high level competitive gaming.
and essentally a film about good vs evil.
must see documentary about high level competitive gaming.
and essentally a film about good vs evil.
i went to Funspot (the place where they have the video game chanpionships every year, where Billy Mitchell sends the videotape up) twice last summer...
for 10 bucks you can play for hours... so, yeah, i played THE donkey kong machine...
nochexxx
harco pronting
jesus! really? fuck life! nice one. out of curiosity do they single out that machine as being the one that steve webe played?
and was that dweebe (the guy who was incommunicado with billy) there? you know the guy who was clearly unhappy about the honourable mr webe getting on a kill screen.
jesus! really? fuck life! nice one. out of curiosity do they single out that machine as being the one that steve webe played?
and was that dweebe (the guy who was incommunicado with billy) there? you know the guy who was clearly unhappy about the honourable mr webe getting on a kill screen.
yeah, it's like an hour and half drive from my parent's house in Boston... a real fun time, for 20 bucks me and my girl will play for like 5 hours and still have tokens left over... plus, it's 5 minutes from Lake Winepasaukee, where Sarkozy vacations! (tho admitedly, he's on the OTHER side of the lake, the blueblood side, not the biker weekend/soft serve ice cream and fried dough on the boardwalk side...)
http://www.funspotnh.com/
IIRC correct there is a small plaque on the DK machine that mention's the game's history and then another one that mentions the movie and the records...
but, funny you mention "the-guy-who-dropped-a-dime-to-billy-mitchell", b/c yeah, he is the guy who RETIRED at like 30 and sold his house and moved to NH to live next to funspot...
now, this is funny, b/c alot of the area that's say a 10-30 minute drive from Funspot is NH redneck, so you could probably buy a house for like 150 grand, so in my mind i picture him retiring with like 200 grand and buying a house and budgeting himself like 5 dollars of quarters a day and just stocking his house with kraft macaroni and cheese and hungry man TV dinners...
BUT, yeah, right when i was getting my tokens someone asked the girl there about the movie and she was like "yeah, Brian blahblah from the movie, he comes ever day" and i got kinda giddy hoping i'd find him, but both times i did not see him, tho he has like 7 plaques there for records:
but they are all for superlame games like Zaxxon 2 or Pole Position 3... like he picks the most obscure games in the entire place b/c he probably figures there's no competition...
more info here:
http://www.classicarcademuseum.org/index.html
the pinball is my favorite, impossible to find good bars w/ pinball these days...
don_quixote
Trent End
not exactly a post directly relevant to the thread, but watched la pianiste today. woop woop. isabelle huppert is so unbelievably pretty + stylish.
crackerjack
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Heard nothing but good things about this.
Watched Gilda yesterday. Not one of the greatest noirs, but Rita Hayworth is beautifully over the top and I loved the way it subverted noir convention (she done it!) by making her a sweet innocent at the end, when the whole film is premised on her being an evil siren.
nochexxx
harco pronting
yeah it's awesome. i like to think of that film as being a metaphor for beat up electronica artists.
crackerjack
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if you wind up with Marisa Tomei, it's gotta be worth it.
mistersloane
heavy heavy monster sound
I saw Garage over Xmas
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0878674/
and Pat Shortt gives the best performance I've seen for a very long time in it.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0878674/
and Pat Shortt gives the best performance I've seen for a very long time in it.
scottdisco
rip this joint please
nice one mistersloane, i really want to see this, cool to hear your recommendation.
crackerjack OTM re the fragrant Marisa Tomei.
i bet some cinema heads here are up in it but i recently saw Ikiru (生きる) and that was a beaut.
mistersloane
heavy heavy monster sound
Have a box of tissues ready, even thinking about it makes me well up.
crackerjack
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Agreed.
Frost/Nixon - tbh, it could've been better. I'm not sure it really nailed the times the way it might have done. But the interplay between the two is fabulous. Sheen is excellent (I still think of him as Blair, but then there might be some similarities between 'the deal'-era Blair and Frost anyway) and Langella deserves his Oscar nom, even if he loses out to Rourke.
The real star of the show, though, is Nixon himself - he's such a fucking fascinating character you only have to get him half-right to make a great film about him.
craner
Beast of Burden
Aldo Lado's Night Train Murders. Or maybe I wouldn't.
This film left me speechless. Quite amazed and appalled.
Marcha Meril, the blind psychic who gets hacked and pushed through a window in Profondo Rosso puts in an mesmerising and unsettling performance here. You will not forget it in a hurry.
Grim, grim stuff.
This film left me speechless. Quite amazed and appalled.
Marcha Meril, the blind psychic who gets hacked and pushed through a window in Profondo Rosso puts in an mesmerising and unsettling performance here. You will not forget it in a hurry.
Grim, grim stuff.